Sometimes I wonder if they are worth it.

I’ve had my home PC for nearly 6 years.  In that 6 years, I’ve added things like memory and larger hard drives.  I even switched operating systems, going from Windows XP to Windows 7 a little more than 2 years ago.  It’s a great computer, but it is beginning to show signs of age.  I just can’t do anything else to it to make it faster other than a major surgery (as in a motherboard and CPU swap), but I’m wanting to do things like HD video authoring and 3D modeling…something this PC simply can’t keep up with.

As I look at replacement options, I began to think about what it would take for me to move into a new PC home.  Outside of the obvious backup and restore of my data, there are all of the programs and utilities I use that would have to be re-installed.  Lest we forget to mention all of the configurations to get things back to where I have them now.

– GAH! –  My head hurts.

I know I want more speed, but I’m really wondering if it’s worth all the trouble to get it.

(This is why I hate spring cleaning too.)

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